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Bellak, Theodore
Glider [pilot]. In 1932, at a model airplane meet, Richard C. DuPont, noted gliding enthusiast, became interested in Bellak, whom he employed and later sent him to Europe to study gliding. From Germany, Bellak brought a glider, 63 feet wide and named it "Dove of Peace." Continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, experimented in Texas, and after carefully charting the weather over Lake Michigan, he had a plane tow his "dove" high in the air; then he sailed with the glider across the lake (54 miles) in one hour and two minutes. Bellak believes that in thirty years, when we learn enough about meteorological conditions, it will be possible to glide to Europe. Resides in Newark, N. J.

From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943

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